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Transfer prices are of dominant importance in company practice and a decentralised organisation, e.g. a profit centre-organisation, is most-widely used. This textbook takes an innovative controversial approach by looking at functions of transfer prices and how different types of transfer prices can fulfil them. Suggestions common in other textbooks will be picked up and it will be shown why they do not contribute to solve the problems companies face. With support of numerous examples and exercises a conceptual understanding of this most relevant management topic will be developed. Transfer prices are an issue in most advanced courses on Management Accounting and/or Management Control and their analysis receives increasing attention. They are covered in one chapter in almost all management accounting textbooks. This often leads to serious oversimplifications and reductions of contents. This books aims at filling this gap and to provide a concise and controversial view on the topic.

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Cost and management accounting.- Functions and types of transfer prices.- Market-based transfer prices.- Cost-based transfer prices.- Negotiated transfer prices.- Transfer prices and behavioural control.- Summary.

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Peter Schuster, geboren 1957, lehrte von 2006 bis 2010 als Professor an der Universität des Saarlandes. 2009 war er "Professeur inivité" an der "École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales" in Paris. Seit 2011 ist er Professor für die Geschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Bielefeld.

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